Pigeons and Doves
Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae
Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere. There are 308 species worldwide and 8 species which occur in Vanuatu.
- Metallic Pigeon Columba vitiensis
- Mackinlay's Cuckoo-dove Macropygia mackinlayi
- Emerald Dove Chalcophaps indica
- Santa Cruz Ground-dove Gallicolumba sanctaecrucis
- Tanna Fruit-dove Ptilinopus tannensis (E)
- Red-bellied Fruit-dove Ptilinopus greyii
- Pacific Imperial-pigeon Ducula pacifica
- Vanuatu Imperial-pigeon Ducula bakeri (E)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Vanuatu
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“I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while the Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)